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Downtown-West Homes for Sale and Real Estate

Area Description

As the central business district, the downtown Louisville area has an array of diverse neighborhoods, office buildings and entertainment venues. Downtown Louisville includes Louisville’s Museum Row, Waterfront Park, Slugger Field, and Muhammad Ali Center. In addition to the tallest buildings in Kentucky, the area includes Old Louisville and West Louisville, two very unique neighborhoods full of history and variety. Western Louisville – including Shawnee and Portland - has seen an intense wave of economic revitalization, while the University of Louisville has lifted Old Louisville, south of downtown.

Area Highlights

Neighbors

urban pioneers, educated, ambitious. In the downtown area, 18 percent reported walking to work in a 2014 Census survey, but driving alone was the most common commute.

Market

Low income to luxury condominiums as well as renovated historic homes. Median prices range from about $50,000 in western Louisville to about $270,000 in the downtown area.

Lifestyle

Family-oriented in Old Louisville and Shawnee, young professionals downtown and a budding effort to attract the artistically inclined to Portland.

You'll Love

The central location to big-city amenities including entertainment, restaurants, parks, and transportation as well as a constantly growing economic atmosphere.

Perfect For

nightlife, dining out, art, and recreation

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Around the Area

Downtown Louisville houses many of the major landmarks in Louisville. Waterfront Park, which includes the Big Four walking bridge, hosts a variety of events including outdoor concerts, yoga classes, and flea markets. Walking down Museum Row, visitors can explore the Frazier History Museum, Kentucky Science Center, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville Slugger Museum, and the 21c Museum and Hotel. The KFC Yum! Center hosts major sports events and concerts. Across the street, Actors Theatre hosts the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, a world-famous festival that attracts actors and patrons from around the globe.

Portland, to the east of Shawnee, has seen significant economic revitalization and become a hotspot for the visual arts. Louisville Visual Art is headquartered across from the Tim Faulkner Gallery on Lytle Street and McQuixote Books & Coffee on Portland Avenue is a quiet, neighborhood coffee shop.

In addition to the University of Louisville, one of Kentucky’s major public universities, Old Louisville’s major attraction is the newly renovated Speed Museum, Kentucky’s premier historical and contemporary art museum.